{"title":"Japanese Jelly Drinks","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapanese jelly drinks: drinkable jelly in a spouted pouch, sipped straight from the spout; for the konjac kind, see \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/konjac-jelly\"\u003eKonjac Jelly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-energy-muscat","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Energy Muscat Jelly Drink 180g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe blue pouch you'll find in Japanese convenience stores: muscat grape jelly you drink through a spout, no spoon and no chewing. It tastes like clean grape jelly, closer to a green grape than the purple sort, and it isn't very sweet to taste. One thing to get straight before you buy: this is the \u003cem\u003eenergy\u003c\/em\u003e one, not one of the sugar-free konjac jellies (the near-zero-calorie diet pouches) it looks like on a supermarket shelf. The pouch carries 753 kJ (180 kcal), the figure printed on the front, and what the product is sold as, and tasting mild is not the same as being light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese pack: \u003cstrong\u003einゼリー エネルギー\u003c\/strong\u003e (in-zerii enerugii). Older packs and older listings say \u003cstrong\u003eウイダーinゼリー\u003c\/strong\u003e, Weider in Jelly, same product, renamed in March 2018 when Morinaga dropped the Weider name, which it had licensed from the American Weider company since 1983. And this is Morinaga \u0026amp; Co., the confectionery company; not Morinaga Milk, which is a different business entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMuscat, which is the line's default\u003c\/strong\u003e: light and clean, with 3% real juice in it. A supermarket staple in Japan rather than a specialist sports product.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSomewhere between a drink and a jelly\u003c\/strong\u003e: thin enough to swallow without chewing, thick enough that it doesn't feel like drinking water. It is the thing Japanese households keep for whoever is ill and can't face food: people say they can drink it lying down.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOne hand, no spoon, gone in seconds\u003c\/strong\u003e: which is why it lives in school bags and gym bags.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTry one before you stock up\u003c\/strong\u003e: it's a clean, not-too-sweet grape, but plenty of people get a faintly medicinal note off it, and have done for years. It's a taste worth meeting once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt won't fill you up, and it isn't meant to\u003c\/strong\u003e: Morinaga's own comparison is about the energy of one rice ball (onigiri). Treat it as the thing that gets you to lunch, not as lunch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Morinaga declares none of Japan's twenty-eight named allergen categories in this product, gelatine included. Our list follows the maker's own Japanese label.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing. One pouch is one serve: twist, drink, done. There is no caffeine in it; the energy is carbohydrate. Don't freeze it: Morinaga's own advice is that freezing leaves the nutrition broadly alone but wrecks the jelly texture, and the texture does not come back when it thaws. Chilling it is what plenty of people in Japan do instead. If you are buying it to run on, weigh it up honestly: 180 g in a pocket is a lot to carry next to a purpose-made running gel. And if you go hunting for the rest of the range, this blue pouch is the Energy one. Multivitamin, Multi Mineral and Glucose Ramune are separate products in near-identical pouches, so check the word on the front.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244640907490,"sku":"SH-DRK-0001","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-energy-muscat-180g-hero.webp?v=1787174073"},{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-multi-mineral","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Multi Mineral Grape Drink 180g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 180 g pouch of grape jelly you drink through the spout rather than spoon. It tastes like Japanese grape confectionery rather than dark grape juice, one Japanese drinker reaches for the word muscat, the pale green table grape, to describe it, with a faint bitterness in the finish that some drinkers notice and some don't. This is the purple pouch in Morinaga's in Jelly range, and of the range's five pouches it is the only one with no vitamins in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003einゼリー マルチミネラル\u003c\/strong\u003e (in zerii maruchi mineraru). Look for the purple and silver one. Five of these pouches look almost identical side by side, so check the word on the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrape, but a Japanese grape. Grape juice is the first ingredient by weight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThin and quick rather than thick. It slides down, and as one drinker puts it, it doesn't leave your stomach sloshing the way a bottle of something does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrape where a Japanese shopper would expect prune. Iron is one of the minerals in this pouch, and in Japan drinks with added iron are almost all prune-flavoured. People who can't stand prune buy this one specifically to get away from it; one reviewer says exactly that.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe honest caveat: the finish divides people. A bitter note under the fruit is the most common complaint, raised by seven Japanese drinkers, and a consumer magazine's tasting panel marked it down for the same thing. The grape covers it for most people. Not for everyone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Morinaga declares none of Japan's twenty-eight named allergen categories in this product, gelatine included. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth being straight about. This is a food, not a supplement, and we make no claim about what the minerals in it do. If vitamins were what you were after, the green grapefruit one is the Multivitamin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270558101730,"sku":"SH-DRK-0002","price":5.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-multi-mineral-180g-hero.webp?v=1787988144"},{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-multivitamin","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Multivitamin Grapefruit 180g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 180 g pouch of grapefruit jelly you drink through the spout rather than spoon. It tastes clean and properly of grapefruit: lightly sweet, with real citrus bitterness rather than a flattened sweet version of it. Most Japanese reviewers call it refreshing; a few can't get on with the bitterness. This is the green pouch in Morinaga's in Jelly range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003einゼリー マルチビタミン\u003c\/strong\u003e (in zerii maruchi bitamin). Green and white, with a red flash in the corner. Five of these pouches look almost identical side by side, so check the word on the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrapefruit that tastes like grapefruit. The verdict Japanese reviewers reach most often is that it is \u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e too sweet: clean, light, faintly bitter the way the fruit is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt isn't a firm jelly, so it slides down rather than sits. No review we read complains about the texture, and one drinker mentions being able to get it down while lying down.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe thing worth knowing before you buy: \u003cstrong\u003ethere is a near-identical yellow pouch that is a different product\u003c\/strong\u003e, that one is pineapple and is sweetened with sucralose and acesulfame K. This green one has no artificial sweetener in it at all. Same brand, same shelf, easy mistake.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere it landed when someone tested it properly: third in the vitamin category of \u003cem\u003eLDK\u003c\/em\u003e magazine's 2025 jelly-drink ranking, rated A. The category winner beat it by having no bitterness at all, which tells you exactly what kind of drink this is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe honest caveat: grapefruit is a dividing fruit and this one does not hide it. One Japanese reviewer who dislikes citrus bitterness says they would pick another flavour if there were one. If citrus bitterness is not your thing, start somewhere else.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Morinaga declares none of Japan's twenty-eight named allergen categories in this product, gelatine included. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're deciding between pouches, the range runs to five that look much alike: blue is the plain Energy one, purple is the mineral one with no vitamins in it at all, teal is a glucose one flavoured like ramune sweets, yellow is the pineapple one, and this green one carries the vitamins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270558560482,"sku":"SH-DRK-0004","price":5.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-multivitamin-180g-hero.webp?v=1787988353"},{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-energy-glucose-ramune","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Energy Glucose Ramune 180g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 180 g pouch of ramune-flavoured jelly you drink through the spout rather than spoon. Ramune here is the flavour, not the fizz: it tastes like the chalky lemon-lime sweet rather than the marble-stoppered soda, and it is sweet, clean and thinner than you would expect a jelly to be. This is the teal pouch in Morinaga's in Jelly range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003einゼリー エネルギーブドウ糖\u003c\/strong\u003e (in zerii enerugii budoutou). One word is worth decoding before you order. \u003cem\u003eBudoutou\u003c\/em\u003e looks and sounds as though it ought to mean grape, and it doesn't. It means \u003cstrong\u003eglucose\u003c\/strong\u003e. There is no fruit juice in this pouch at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRamune flavour, which in Japan means the lemon-lime taste shared by a soda and a chalky pressed sweet. Several Japanese drinkers call it their favourite in the whole in Jelly range; one describes it simply as tasting like eating ramune sweets.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot carbonated. There is no fizz in it at all. If you were expecting the soda in jelly form, this isn't that.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet with agar, so it runs looser than the muscat Energy pouch in the same range, which uses a thicker base, and it drinks more than it chews. One person describes the feel as sitting exactly midway between drinking and eating: you're drinking it, but your stomach registers food.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe honest caveat, and there are two. It is sweet: glucose is the main ingredient and \u003cem\u003etoo sweet\u003c\/em\u003e is the most common complaint Japanese drinkers make about it. And some drinkers report it makes them drowsy, so try one on an ordinary day before you rely on it when you need to stay alert.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Morinaga declares none of Japan's twenty-eight named allergen categories in this product, gelatine included. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're choosing between pouches: the blue one is the standard Energy, muscat-flavoured, and this teal one is the glucose one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have wondered what that bottle with the marble in the neck actually is, our guide \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/ramune-japanese-marble-soda\"\u003eRamune: the Japanese soda with a marble stuck in the bottle\u003c\/a\u003e explains it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270558658786,"sku":"SH-DRK-0005","price":5.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-energy-glucose-ramune-180g-hero.webp?v=1787989414"},{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-protein-5g-yogurt","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Protein 5g Yogurt Jelly Drink 180g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 180 g pouch of yogurt-flavoured jelly that you drink through the spout, from Morinaga's in Jelly range. It tastes like Yakult, a sweet lactic drink, more than a thick spoonable yoghurt, and the jelly is broken up like a crushed jelly, so it goes down easily. Buy it if you want a small yogurt jelly drink between meals; if you want a protein shake, this is the wrong pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: inゼリー プロテイン5g (in zerii purotein go-guramu), with ヨーグルト味 (yogurt flavour) in smaller type.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe pouch has a spout and a screw cap, so there is nothing to spoon or pour: you drink it straight from the pouch, wherever you are.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sweetness comes from three sweeteners: stevia, sucralose and acesulfame K.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe finish can taste bitter or medicinal, and the yogurt a little watered down. Plenty of people buy it again anyway.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is the 5g pouch, not the 15g one. The 15g pouch is a different product with pork collagen in it; this one has no pork and no gelatine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a snack between meals, not a meal and not a protein shake. The recipe changed in November 2024, so an English listing that mentions \"whey peptide 5,000 mg\" is describing an older pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67732544258274,"sku":"SH-DRK-0011","price":6.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-protein-5g-yogurt-180g-hero.webp?v=1792291598"},{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-peach","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Fruit Texture Peach Jelly Drink 150g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 150 g pouch of sweet peach jelly you drink through the spout, tasting strongly of peach, with a grainy, crushed-jelly body rather than smooth jelly or pieces of fruit. Buy it if you want a peach snack you can drink on the go; if you want a near-zero-calorie konjac diet pouch (a jelly made from the root of the konjac plant), this is the wrong one, because it is made with sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese name: inゼリー フルーツ食感 もも (in zerii furuutsu shokkan momo), which means in Jelly, fruit texture, peach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt tastes clearly of peach, even though only 5% of it is peach juice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe texture is the surprise: grainy and bitty, like a peach jelly that has been crushed up. It is not the smooth, squishy jelly of most jelly drinks, and there are no pieces of fruit in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a firm jelly, so it takes more sucking through the spout than you might expect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is sweet. The sweetness comes from sugar and fructose-glucose syrup, plus two sweeteners, acesulfame K and sucralose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is smaller than the 180 g in Jelly pouches. The fruit-texture pouches are the range's fruit snacks; the 180 g pouches are sold for energy, vitamins, minerals or protein.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: milk, from the fermented milk in the jelly. Contains peach. Australian labels don't have to flag peach as an allergen, so if you avoid it, look for it by name in the ingredients. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDon't put it in the freezer: the jelly turns watery as it thaws and does not set again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67810174075106,"sku":"SH-DRK-0025","price":6.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-fruit-texture-peach-150g-hero.webp?v=1793426460"},{"product_id":"morinaga-in-jelly-kyoho-grape","title":"Morinaga in Jelly Fruit Texture Kyoho Grape Jelly Drink 150g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 150 g pouch of sweet grape jelly you drink through the spout, tasting of Kyoho grape, with a slightly grainy body rather than pieces of fruit. Buy it if you want a grape snack you can drink on the go; if you want a near-zero-calorie konjac diet pouch (a jelly made from the root of the konjac plant), this is the wrong one, because it is made with sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese name: inゼリー フルーツ食感 巨峰 (in zerii furuutsu shokkan kyoho), which means in Jelly, fruit texture, Kyoho. Kyoho is a Japanese grape variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt tastes properly of grape, even though only 5% of it is grape juice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe jelly is slightly grainy, and there are no pieces of grape in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt takes more sucking through the spout than you might expect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is sweet. The sweetness comes from sugar and fructose-glucose syrup, plus two sweeteners, acesulfame K and sucralose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is smaller than the 180 g in Jelly pouches. The fruit-texture pouches are the range's fruit snacks; the 180 g pouches are sold for energy, vitamins, minerals or protein.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: milk, from the fermented milk in the jelly. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not the Multi Mineral pouch in the same range, which is also grape-flavoured but a different, larger 180 g product. Don't put it in the freezer: the jelly turns watery as it thaws and does not set again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67810174632162,"sku":"SH-DRK-0026","price":6.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-in-jelly-fruit-texture-kyoho-grape-150g-hero.webp?v=1793426673"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/japanese-jelly-drinks.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}